Quick usb flash drive question

first78

My disk drive is broken and I have a set of 8 language cd's that I want to put on my ipod.

My question is, can I buy a USB flash drive and then use my dads computer to put the cd's onto the flash drive and from there transfer them to iTunes to put on my ipod?

If so what is a suitable size flash drive to buy? I don't want to have to spend too much! Please can anyone advise me?

John_Gray

8 CDs would occupy no more than about 5.6 GB, so an 8 GB USB Flash drive would hold them all. I assume that the iPod won't support the Microsoft NTFS file system so you'd have to check that the flash drive is formatted as FAT-32.

8 GB flash drives shouldn't cost more than about £8-£10, provided you don't get them from PC World, so try online shops you know, like Amazon, Play.com (particularly easy to price flash drives with this one), 7dayshop, and so on. Free postage is your aim, too.

davetrousers

John_Gray wrote: »

8 CDs would occupy no more than about 5.6 GB,

Surely they'd be converted to mp3s? And because they're language CDs I doubt quality would be that important so could probably be ripped at quite a low bitrate, so all 8 discs would easily be less than 1GB

first78

Are most flash drives formatted as FAT-32?

Spank

Can you not take the iPod with you & transfer the ripped Cd's via a cable?

John_Gray

first78 wrote: »

Are most flash drives formatted as FAT-32?

Usually - but of course the one you buy may not be!

jayme1

it won't matter what the thumb drive is formatted in as it will only be read by the computers she is using them in (if they are both windows then NTFS would be fine) the disc formats the ipod can read is irrelevant as itunes sorts that out.

so you would rip the CDs on your dads computer to either mp3 or aac, copy the files to the thumb drive, plug the thumb drive into your computer copy the files off, add them into itunes and finally sync the ipod.

language and spoken word can be ripped at much lower bitrates than music so you would likely be able to fit all 8 CDs onto something like a 1 or 2GB drive, although with thumb drives being so cheap I would get something like an 8GB drive to be safe and you will likely find a use for it in future.